Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings is a Grade I listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1954. House, museum. 35 related planning applications.
Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- muffled-thatch-spindle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1954
- Type
- House, museum
- Address
- Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings, 48, Doughty Street, WC1N 2LX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 307 822
- Coordinates
- 51.5236, -0.11628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terraced house dating from approximately 1807 to 1809, located in Camden. The house is constructed of darkened stock brick with a slate mansard roof and dormers. A plain stucco sill band runs along the first floor. It is three stories high, with an attic and basement, and features three windows. The round-arched doorway has a stucco surround with pilaster jambs, a cornice head, fanlight, and a panelled door. The recessed sash windows are set within gauged brick flat arches; the ground floor has louvred shutters, while the first floor has cast-iron balconies. A stucco cornice and blocking course are present. Original lead rainwater heads and pipes are also visible. The interior of the house has not been inspected. Attached to the property are cast-iron railings with urn finials to the areas. This house was the home of Charles Dickens between 1837 and 1839, and is now a house museum, which is the primary reason for its Grade I group value.
Local climate
Charles Dickens House and Attached Railings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 35 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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